PROGRAMME

18 July 2013

 

8:30 – 9:15 Registration

9:15 – 9:20 Welcome

 

SESSION 1 – Planetary Systems

9:20 – 9:35 Raquel AlbuquerqueAnalysis of the mineralogy of S-type asteroids from reflectance spectra

9:35 – 9:50 Alexandre Correia – Eccentricity pumping of exoplanets by tidal effect

9:50 – 10:05 Jorge MartinsOn the detection of reflected light from exoplanets

10:05 – 10:30 Annelies MortierThe metallicity – giant planet connection for evolved stars 
 

Coffee Break 10:30 – 11:00

 

SESSION 2 – Planetary Systems and Stellar Properties

11:00 – 11:15 Mahmoudreza OshaghEffect of stellar spots on high-precision transit light-curve

11:15 – 11:30 Ana Rei –  Mass and Age determination for low-mass Young Stellar Objects

11:30 – 11:45 Fernando Pinheiro –  Estimating the mass of solar type stars

11:45 – 12:00 Sérgio BatistaOptimization methods for deriving FGK stellar population

12:00 – 12:25 Giancarlo PaceThe evolution of chromospheric activity is L-shaped

12:25 – 12:40 João FariaAcoustic Glitches in 16 Cygni

 

Lunch 12:40 – 14:10

 

SESSION 3 – Stellar Evolution and The Interstellar Medium

14:10 – 14:35 José Sande Lemos Compact objects: From white dwarfs to regular black holes

14:35 – 14:50 Vanessa Agra-AmboageOptical analysis of the FU Ori star V1515Cyg

14:50 – 15:05 Paulo GarciaPre-main-sequence binaries with tidally disrupted discs: the Br γ in HD104237

15:05 – 15:20 Lluis GalbanyIntegral Field Unit spectroscopy of supernova host galaxies 

15:20 – 15:35 Nuno CarvalhoDevelopment of hybrid software to run in GPUs and CPUs: Implementation of the high-order grid based Piecewise Parabolic Method

 

15:35 – 16:05 Coffee Break

 

SESSION 4 – The Galaxy

16:05 – 16:30 André MoitinhoGaia launch time talk  

16:30 – 16:45 Manuel SilvaRunaway stars as tracers of the spiral arms

16:45 – 17:00 Rui Agostinho – The flux from galactic supernovae as a possible drive of climate change in the last 50 Ma and the extinction of Sirenia in Europe

17:00 – 17:15 Vardan AdibekyanGalactic stellar populations and exoplanet frequencies therein  

17:30 – 19:00 SPA meeting

 

19 July 2013

 

SESSION 5 – Instrumentation and Astroparticle Physics

9:00 – 9:25 José Afonso, Alexandre CabralMOONS – a powerful Multi-Object Optical and Near-infrared Spectrograph for the VLT 

9:25 – 9:40  Paulo GarciaThe science case of the GRAVITY instrument

9:40 – 9:55 Alexandre Cabral, Nuno SantosESPRESSO: from science to instrumentation

9:55 – 10:10 Patrícia GonçalvesTowards a Radiation Monitor for the Jovian System

10:10 – 10:25 Lorenzo CazonUltra-high energy cosmic rays with the Pierre Auger Observatory

 

Coffee Break 10:25 – 10:55

 

SESSION 6 – Extragalactic Astrophysics

10:55 – 11:20 Jarle BrinchmannLegacy science with Euclid mission

11:20 – 11:35 Patricio LagosStudying the interstellar medium of extremely metal poor HII/BCD galaxies using IFU spectroscopy

11:35 – 11:50 Ciro PappalardoThe Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey: insight into galaxy evolution from Far Infra-Red wavelength

11:50 – 12:05 Andrew HumphreyOptical and CO observations of type 2 quasars at intermediate redshifts

12:05 – 12:20 Sonia AntónAGNs & Gaia

12:20 – 12:35 Ana Afonso –  Optical Counterparts of ICRF2: Gaia beacons

 

Lunch 12:35 – 14:05

 

SESSION 7 – High Redshift Universe and Cosmology

14:05 – 14:30 José AfonsoTowards the discovery of the first radio galaxies

14:30 – 14:45 Silvio LorenzoniStar-Forming Galaxies at z~ 8-9 from HST/WFC3: Implications from Reionization

14:45 – 15:00 Carlos MartinsFundamental cosmology with the E-ELT

15:00 – 15:15 José CorreiaDifferent views of cosmic defect evolution

15:15 – 15:30 Ugo BertelloThree-form cosmology

15:30 – 15:45 Nelson NunesCoupled 3-form dark energy

 

15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break including Poster Session Award

 

SESSION 8 – Cosmology

16:15 – 16:40 Francisco Lobo Extended theories of gravity and the late-time cosmic acceleration

16:40 – 16:55 José Pedro Mimoso Dividing global expansion from local contraction in spherically symmetric models with anisotropic pressures

16:55 – 17:10 Diogo CapeloCosmological implications of spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking in the time direction

 

SESSION 9 – Outreach

17:10 – 17:25 Rui AgostinhoHigh precision measurements of the Earth’s radius, by Eratosthenes’ method

17:25 – 17:40 Rosa Doran – Science research invades schools

17:40 – 17:55 Lina CanasMeet our neighbours! – a tactile experience

 

 

18:00 – 19:00 Round table discussion

 

 

 

 



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